Is Google Translate Really Predicting ‘Doomsday, Jesus’ Return’?
The algorithms that the Google service uses to autonomously develop and learn to translate more accurately sometimes produce unexpected results, giving cryptic messages instead of translations. Google Translate recently surprised users by issuing cryptic messages in some translations about the apocalypse. Users on Reddit detected that if you type in the word “dog” 23 times, while choosing certain languages, like … Continue reading
Google Allows 3rd-Party App Developers to Access to Your Emails
Where and where does the invasion of our privacy end! via RT: According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, the tech giant continues to let hundreds of developers read people’s emails. Any of Gmail’s 1.3 billion users who have connected their email addresses to apps may have unknowingly given those apps permission to read their communications. The Wall … Continue reading
Google AI to Predict Patient Life Expectancy
Google has been expanding its medical services for some time now, but according to a new research paper, its AI neural networks could significantly improve the healthcare patients receive when going to the hospital. Whereas most software used in health care these days is coded by humans, Google’s new machine can understand the data by itself. “They understand what problems … Continue reading
Google Assistant Capable of Pulling the Trigger, Shooting You
Now that’s some killer tech right there! via sputniknews: As it turns out, it’s enough just to give Google Assistant a voice command to pull the trigger. Is it time to sound the alarm? Google Assistant has been taught to fire a gun, according to media reports. Alexander Reben, a robotics enthusiast from the United States, came up with the … Continue reading
Google Investigated in Australia for Allegedly Tracking Phone Users Location at Their Expense
It seems now that companies such as Google, Facebook and others carry out these types of shady activities until someone calls them out on it and if no one finds out they just keep on doing it. To add insult to injury, in this particular situation (if true), they are spying on the users and the users end up getting … Continue reading
“Wake up!”, Facebook & Google Getting Too Big to be Governed Says French President Macron
Wise words indeed from the President of France. By now it’s fairly common knowledge of Google’s privacy breach attempts (Google Collects Location Data from Android Users Even With Service Disabled – Report (Google Spying: Voice Assistant Records and Keeps Conversations You Have Around Your Phone) with no consequence and with recent exposure of shady Facebook activities (Data Downloads Reveal the … Continue reading
Google’s AI to Use Retinal Scan to Predict Heart Disease and Hypertension
Google always brings tremendous innovations but with like everything they do I can’t help but always feel their intentions might be more than meets the eyes (no pun intended). via USA Today: I can look into your eyes and see straight to your heart. It may sound like a sappy sentiment from a Hallmark card. Essentially though, that’s what researchers … Continue reading
Google’s Artificial Intelligence Builds ‘Child’ that Outperforms Man Made AI
In May 2017, researchers at Google Brain announced the creation of AutoML, an artificial intelligence (AI) that’s capable of generating its own AIs. More recently, they decided to present AutoML with its biggest challenge to date, and the AI that can build AI created a “child” that outperformed all of its human-made counterparts. The Google researchers automated the design of machine learning models using an … Continue reading
Computer Chip Security Flaw Affects Virtually All Modern Devices
A Google-affiliated team of security analysts have announced that virtually all modern computers are vulnerable to hacking due to a set of security flaws in chips from three of the largest software makers. Chips from Intel, Arm Holdings and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) all contained the flaw, according to a new report from Alphabet, Inc.’s Google Project Zero, whose stated … Continue reading
Google’s AI is Watching YouTube Clips to Learn About Human Behavior
Robots are watching us. Literally. Google has curated a set of YouTube clips to help machines learn how humans exist in the world. The AVAs, or “atomic visual actions,” are three-second clips of people doing everyday things like drinking water, taking a photo, playing an instrument, hugging, standing or cooking. Each clip labels the person the AI should focus on, … Continue reading
